HUSKERS SOFTBALL IS HERE!: Previewing the NFCA Leadoff Classic

Huskers Athletics Barely out of January, the Nebraska Cornhuskers softball team heads south for the first of five pre-conference schedule “tournaments”. They’re only actually tournaments in that they will play a slate a games against different teams with the early ones being held in warmer regions. There are no elimination brackets or named champions; it’s merely a way for teams to play a slew of non-conference games in warmer weather.

(Would that baseball level the playing field in such a manner, but on the men’s side such a notion is regarded as crazy talk by the southern schools loathe to give up the advantage given to them by their mild climates.)

The Huskers chose to leap into the deep…